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ToquiNotes: Recalling a Bridgeport Restaurant Strong on Buffet Front and Multiple Other Areas of the Menu

As I often do, particularly for you fans of nostalgia and food, I am focusing this week’s blog on a national res...

By Jeff Toquinto September 13, 2025 6:00 AM EST in ToquiNotes

ToquiNotes: Celebrating Shirlene Isabella as Honorary Italian Woman of Year who is Always Woman of Year

Posted on September 06, 2025

A few weeks ago, my wife and I joined some friends at Kelley’s 2.0 in downtown Clarksburg when I was tapped on t...

ToquiNotes: Unofficial King of Dance Entertainment of the Italian Heritage Festival - Bridgeport's Spike Aman

Posted on August 30, 2025

Editor's Note I: This blog ran in August of 2020, prior to the West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival. It is running...

ToquiNotes: After 120-Plus Years on Staff, Arguably City's Two Longest Tenured Workers Call it a Career

Posted on August 23, 2025

Bridgeport has had many employees spend their entire lives serving the community. Not too long ago, Librarian Sharon S...

ToquiNotes: Recalling Meadowbrook Mall Business to Get Bite to Eat Far from "Cheesy" No Longer Around

Posted on August 16, 2025

As I left Boscov's at Meadowbrook Mall earlier this summer, it was close to dinner time. Because of that, yours truly was...

ToquiNotes: Miss Saltwell Pumpkin Farm? Not Exactly the Same, but New Business to Bring Area Fall Fun

Posted on August 02, 2025

With temperatures recently feeling like they were above 100 degrees, the last thing on many folks’ minds is fall...

ToquiNotes: Asking for Community Help to Reunite a 50-Year-Plus-Old Vietnam War Bracelet with Family

Posted on July 26, 2025

This week’s blog will be a little different than most. With this one I’m asking for some North Central West Virginia c...

ToquiNotes: Harrowing Tale, Safe Return, and a BHS Student-Led Philadelphia Avenue Lions Restoration

Posted on July 19, 2025

Last summer, when work began on redesigning the intersection of Worthington Drive and Philadelphia Avenue by Simpson Eleme...

ToquiNotes: When a Thank You Simply is Not Enough

Posted on July 12, 2025

Sometimes, a thank you is not enough. Being able to look back with a little clearer mind in recent days, I do not beli...

ToquiNotes: Unlucky 13-Year Anniversary of Worst Likely Storm in City's History Since Tornado of 1970

Posted on July 05, 2025

It was August 20, 1970, when what many will consider the worst storm in Bridgeport’s history took place. A torna...

ToquiNotes: Recalling One of the Best Restaurants in City, Entire Area from Old Hills and Ames Plazas

Posted on June 28, 2025

I’ve had my share of good food in my life. On the culinary front, if you’re fortunate enough to be living here in the...

ToquiNotes: Saying Goodbye to a Gift from God in the Form of a Security Blanket Who I Called Mom

Posted on June 22, 2025

In the famous Peanuts comic strip featuring Charlie Brown and Snoopy, there is a character Linus that most of my generatio...

ToquiNotes: Section of I-79 Between Bridgeport and Clarksburg Needs Attention - Is DOH Help Coming?

Posted on June 14, 2025

The stretch of highway between Route 50’s exit and entrance onto Interstate 79 and the exit and entrance onto th...

ToquiNotes: Recalling "Fast Food with Style" Featuring a Salad Bar and Pudding Edging Closer to Extinction

Posted on June 08, 2025

It has been years, probably decades, since I last dined at the restaurant that is the topic of this week’s blog. And...

ToquiNotes: After Serving Harrison and Surrounding Counties for 47 Years, Doctor's Scrubs Head to Closet

Posted on May 31, 2025

Calling a community home your entire life is generally not a bad thing. Taking care of others in and around that same...

ToquiNotes: Surgeries Pile Up, Cancer Battle Ongoing for RCB Senior Landen Jaggie - and You Can Help

Posted on May 24, 2025

All things being standard, Landen Jaggie would have been walking for graduation with the Robert C. Byrd High School Cl...

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